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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New improvements in elearning technology have empowered people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions must deal with now that elearning technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can learners certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Canvas Network to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage problems like inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these open education experiments. Scientists want to grasp how MOOCs can be enhanced. In response to this crescive demand for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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